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Introducing SEI
The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) is an independent, international research institute specialising in sustainable development and environment issues. It works at local, national, regional and global policy levels. SEI along with its predecessor, the Beijer Institute, has been engaged in major environment and development issues for a quarter of a century.
Our Mission
SEI's mission is to support decision-making and induce change towards sustainable development around the world by bridging science and policy in the field of environment and development.
The SEI mission developed from the insights gained at the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm (after which the Institute derives its name), the work of the (Brundtland) World Commission for Environment and Development and the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development. The Institute was established in 1989 following an initiative by the Swedish Government.
SEI at the University of York
SEI-York was established in 1989 as one of the constituent centres of the Stockholm Environment Institute. It is located within the University of York, a leading research University in the UK. The centre has 30 core members of staff including four professorial research leaders. It forms a self-funded research unit in the Biology Department and the University acts as employer of all SEI-Y staff on behalf of SEI in Stockholm.An international board and an executive committee oversee SEI. SEI has its headquarters in Stockholm (Sweden) and has an international network of centres in Boston (USA), Tallinn (Estonia) and York (UK) and offices located in Oxford and Bangkok. A further network of associates complements the SEI activities around the globe. Each centre has its own personality and foci of interests, and each operates with significant autonomy while participating in the five crosscutting research programmes.
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SEI have just released a policy brief on Scotland's Footprint.
Our study has shown that Scotland's carbon footprint has grown by 11 per cent since 1992.
The figure includes greenhouse gases released overseas during the production of goods later consumed in Scotland and so is the most accurate gauge of the country's emissions to date.
While emissions generated in Scotland fell by 13 percent between 1995 and 2004, when trade is taken account, greenhouse gases rose by 11 per cent over the same period.
The full policy brief can be found on SEI's website.
An article has also be published in the Sunday Herald and can be found here.
The NHS England successfully launched their Carbon Reduction Strategy ‘Saving Carbon, Improving Health' on 27th January 2009. SEI contributed to the evidence base for the strategy, carrying out a consumption-based carbon footprint of the NHS England, who represents 25% of England's public sector emissions. The first part of the project examined historical emissions and identified the drivers behind a rising carbon footprint. This forms the first report published in 2008. The second phase of the project projects future emissions and models a range of policy options and their carbon reduction potential.
Further information can be found at the NHS Sustainable Development Unit website
Our phase 1 report for the NHS England carbon analysis project is available online.
This report provides a 2004 baseline for the NHS, a time series and a supply chain analysis of the pharmaceutical and medical equipment sectors (the highest impact procurement sectors of the NHS England).
We are in the process of developing a carbon scenario tool to contribute to the NHS England Carbon Strategy and target setting. The deadline for this is January and another report will be issued. We are also looking into repeating the study for the NHS Scotland, Wales and NI.